An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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